Constance: Holy Roman Empress, ... So Henry was crowned King of Germany at age three in 1169 and Holy Roman Emperor as Henry VI in 1191 after his father, Emperor Frederick, died.

By 1745, after a brief interregnum, she had regained control of the crown of Bohemia and become, in addition, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, which, at that time, comprised most of central Europe.

Replica of the Holy Roman Emperor's crown. The copy of the Reichskrone, made for Aachen in 1913 and now in the city's museum, is of very high quality and accurate in every detail.

Portrait of Empress Maria Theresia (1717-1780), Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, with the Bohemian crown and the archducal crown Heritage Images/Getty Images A ruthless ruler and opponent, devoted wife ...

Archduchess Marie Antoinette, born in 1755, was the child of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, per History. What happened to the Habsburgs?

RELIGIOUS EVENTS IN HISTORY On Dec. 25, 800, Frankish King Charlemagne is crowned as the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. In 799, Leo fled Ro… ...

Waltz into a grand Austrian celebration this fall on the Danube River on an eight-day cruise marking the 300th birthday of Maria Theresa of Austria, whose one-time titles included Holy Roman ...

At the end of World War II, it was discovered that the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire had vanished from their secret vault in Nuremberg. The mystery of who stole the jewels was left ...

Witness John McCain who claims that he is not just a descendant of the 13th century Scottish King Robert The Bruce, but also of the first Holy Roman Emperor and founder of modern Europe, the 9th ...

Hitler's Holy Relics: A True Story of Nazi Plunder and the Race to Recover the Crown Jewels of the Holy Roman Empire Sidney D. Kirkpatrick, . . Simon & Schuster, $27 (316pp) ISBN 978-1-4165-9062-0 ...